Back to the UN Arms Trade Treaty

The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Is Back (and Actually, It Never Left), Heritage Foundation Foundry, November 1, 2012. "The First Committee of the U.N. General Assembly is considering a resolution to convene “the Final United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty” in New York next March. Last July, a U.N. conference to negotiate an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) collapsed when it because obvious that the draft treaty was not ready for prime time. But as I wrote at the time, the conference’s collapse was “not the end of the process. It is the end of a phase.” That next phase of the ATT is now well under way."